Combination rake, scoop, and scraper.



M. W. SMITH.

COMBINATION RAKE, SCOOP, AND SGRAPER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 5, 1912.'

1,050,305. Patented Jan.14,1913.

M Want/iii MARTIN W. SMITH, OF ENID, OKLAHOMA.

COMBINATION RAKE, SCOOP, AND SCRAPER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 14, 1913.

Application filed April 5, 1912. Serial No. 688,795.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN WV. SMITH, acitizen'of the United States, residing at Enid, in the county ofGarfield and State of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Combination Rakes, Scoops, and Scrapers, of which thefollowing is a specification, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings.

This invention comprehends certain new and useful improvements in farmor garden tools and relates particularly to a combination scoop, rakeand scraper or hoe, designed especially for use on a farm or aboutpoultry yards or threshing machines, for instance, in gathering all finetrash or grain in heaps and then scooping up the same.

The invention has for its primary object a simple and ehicient implementof this character which may be attached to any fork and serve as eithera scoop, a rake, or a scraper or hoe, andwhich may be easily convertedfrom one device to another, without the separation or attachment of anyparts, but by simple adjustments which may be easily effected.

The invention also has for its object a simple, durable and efiicientconstruction of a tool of this character, the parts of which may becheaply manufactured and readily assembled and not liable to get out oforder.

The invention also aims to generally improve devices of this class torender them more useful and commercially valuable.

lVith these and other objects in view as will more fully appear as theinvention proceeds, the invention consists in certain constructions andarrangements of parts that I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

For a full understanding of the invention, reference is to be had to thefollowing description and accompanying drawing, in which,

Figure l is a perspective view of my device. Fig. 2 is a longitudinalsectional view thereof; and Fig. 3 is a rear view with parts in section.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the followingdescription and designated in all the views of the accompanying drawingby like reference characters.

My improved agricultural implement includes a body portion 1, which isformed with a substantially fiat bottom 2, side flanges 3 and a rearflange 4 that are secured together by rivets or the like in anoverlapped registration, best illustrated in Fig. 3. The bottom 2 of thebody port-ion 1 is formed with a number of apertures 5, arranged in anydesired number of sets, and there being any desired number of aperturesin each set, so that the body portion 1 and its correlated parts may beconnected to any ordinary fork, irrespective of the exact number oftines. In the present embodiment of the invention, there are two sets orseries of these apertures 5, arranged one back of the other, one setembodying four apertures and the other set embodying three, but, asabove indicated, the invention is not limited in this regard. Theapertures 5 are designed to receive the pointed extremities of the tines6 of a fork 7, the handle 8 of which is intended to rest within anupwardly facing socket 9 formed in the upper edge of the rear flange 4and in a reinforcing plate 10 secured thereto. In order to securely andyet detachably hold the fork 7 in place, I provide oppositely actingjaws 11 which are pivoted between the plate 10 and the adjoining wall ofthe rear flange 4: and which are provided with upwardly projectinghooked extremities adapted to extend over the handle 8 and with the lugs12 on their lower ends designed for engagement with an expansion spring13, whereby the jaws are normally held in closed position. In order toslip the handle into place, it is only necessary to open the jawsagainst the tension of the spring 13 and to then release the jaws so asto permit the spring to act so that the hooked upper ends of jaws willextend over the handle. By this means, as is evident, the body portion 1may be securely attached to the fork whereby the handle of the latterwill serve as the handle for all the tools embodied in the device.

In connection with the body portion 1, I use a rake 14 and a hoe orscrape-r 15. Both of these parts are provided at their ends withangularly disposed attaching arms 16 that are preferably connected bycommon pivots to the outer sides of the side flanges 3. Preferably theparts 14 and 15 are so proportioned that they will nest one within theother, when desired, so that either or both of them may be heldout-of-the-w'ay in an inoperative position at the rear of the bodyportion 1, by a suspension latch 17, which is preferably pivotallyconnected at its upper end in between the reinforcing plate 10 and therear flange 4:, said latch being formed with a hooked extremity whichwill, when required, engage the rake or the hoe, or both of them, andhold. either or both in the desired inoperative position. When eitherof. these parts, namely, the rake or the hoe, are required for use, itcan be swung downwardly and forwardly so as to rest underneath theforward edge of the bottom 2, being held in such position by latches 18which are secured to the side flanges 3, as clearly illustrated in thedrawing and which are designed to spring into locking engagement withthe attaching arms 16.

Preferably, in order to prevent the tines from gathering up straw orrubbish and the like, the bottom of the body portion 1 is provided witha preferably integral strip 19 which extends underneath the perforationsor apertures 5. As will be understood, the body portion 1 constitutesthe scoop of the device as well as a direct supporting member for therake and hoe.

From the foregoing description in connection with the accompanyingdrawing, the operation of my improved agricultural implement or toolwill be apparent. As before described, it is only necessary, whendesiring to use the device, to slip the tines of a forl; into the properapertures 5 of the scoop or body portion 1 and to slip the handle 8 ofthe fork in between the spring pressed aws 11. If the device is then tobe used as a rake or hoe, or scraper in raking or scraping up straw orrubbish into heaps, preparatory to scooping the same up, the rake M orthe hoe 15 is swung forwardly so that its attaching arms 16 will beengaged by the latches 18. After the rubbish or the like is heaped up,the rake or hoe, as the case may be, is swung rearwardly again to itsinoperative position and the body portion 1 used as a scoop, in anevident manner. in the inoperative position of the rake and. hoe, theyare, as before specified, held at the heel or rear lower corner of thescoop by means of the hooked lower end of the latch 17. It will thus beseen that l have provided a very simple, durable and elfieientconstruction of tool, which may be used in performing a plurality ofdifferent operations and which therefore, not only effects econoi'nies,but enables the operator to always have at hand in one and the same device, a plurality of implements or tools for scraping, raking, orscooping.

While the accompanying drawing illustrates what l believe to be thepreferred em bodiment of my invention, it is to be understood that theinvention is not limited thereto, but that various changes may be madein the construction, arrangement and proportions of the parts withoutdeparting from the scope of the invention as defined in the appendedclaims.

laying thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. A device of thecharacter described, including a body portion in the form of a scoop, ascraping implement pivotally connected thereto and adapted to restunderneath the front edge thereof, means for detachably holding saidimplement in such position, and means for holding said implement in aninoperative position at the rear side of said body portion.

2. A device of the character described, including a body portion, a rakeformed with angularly disposed arms by which it is pivotally connectedto the body portion to swing underneath the bottom thereof, and meansfor holding said rake in an operative position underneath the forwardedge of the body portion.

3. A device of the character described, including a body portion, a rakeand a hoe both provided with angularly disposed arms pivoted at a commonpoint to the sides of the body port-ion, and means for holding one ofthese implements, namely, the rake and the hoe, in an inoperativeposition at the rear of the body portion and the other in an operativeposition underneath the front edge of said body portion.

l. A device of the cha acter described, including a body portionembodying a bottom and side and rear flanges, a scraping implementprovided with angularly disposed arms pivotally connected to the sideflanges and adapted to swing underneath the bottom, latches connected tosaid side flanges and arranged to engage said angular arms to hold theimplementextended forwardly underneath the front edge of the bottom, anda latch carried by the rear flange and adapted to engage said implementto hold the latter in an inoperative position at the rear of the bottom.

5. A device of the character described, including a body portion, ascraping implement pivotally connected to said body portion to swingforwardly and rearwardly underneath the bottom thereof, and means fordetachably connecting said body portion with a fork.

In testimony whereof I hereunto my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

MARTIN i l. SMlTH. lVitnesses Henna BLAsnnL, Ean'ns'r Gr. SMITH.

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